I'm not on here too much, but as a current employee that knows all the shenanigans that go on at this company, I feel compelled to say that you all should remember that no matter what you post here - management really doesn't care. It's not going to... — read more 

They are getting sneaky, couple layoffs on Friday go announced and mostly undetected.

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140504181152-74871230-employees-quit-management-not-the-company?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_1

If you've ever worked for a boss who reacts before getting the facts and thinking things through, and some of us have, you will love this! Arcelor-Mittal Steel, feeling it was time for a shakeup, hired a new CEO. The new boss was determined to rid... — read more 

When you call mr heat it goes to HR directly. After that the complaint goes to your regional who (if you have a regional like mine) immediately tells everyone about the complaint whether anonymous or not. Usually the complaint is shelved and nothing... — read more 

Why the anger at Mary Lee? The first time she was introduced she said that her only job was to increase the value of Follett stock. Since only Follett family members can own real stock (not phantom shares) what her job at Follett has been is to make... — read more 

I don't think Mary Lee gives a f*** about any of this...in her year and a half at Follett she has laid off hundreds and killed any future for those left. You all need to hit her where it hurts....the bottom line. Find out where the revenue IS coming... — read more 

This was taken from LinkedIn. It was written by John White. Recognize any behaviors? Have you ever had a REALLY bad boss? Well I have. This individual drove everybody out and the company had to close the regional office, because everyone quit or was... — read more 

Imagine that you’ve been working in your job for a while. You enjoy your work, know how to do it well, and take pride in the results you produce. And then one day things change. Perhaps a new boss is hired from the outside, who doesn’t talk to you or... — read more 

http://www.bullyonline.org/stress/health.htm So the longer I am being bullied and tested the more I'm figuring out. It's not always easy to see when they bury you in so much high priority work and involve so many people in their games. AS I read the... — read more 

Expect more changes as they realize home office overhead added in last year is unacceptable.

Anyone know how many contracts not being renewed?

Macalester College March 28, 2014 | News College apparel purchasing code of conduct under scrutiny after SRC meeting. http://themacweekly.com/2014/03/college-apparel-purchasing-code-of-conduct-under-scrutiny-after-src-meeting/

Anonymous8329 (few more layoffs today), Wednesday 04/23/14 01:59:45 UTC continues without making announcements

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/midsized-firms-cant-afford-bad-bets/

Soon, we'll be as successful as these mighty retail entities! All hail, Fmart! But seriously, WTF??

Are you guys a publicly traded company? If yes, what's Follett's Stock ticker? Sorry for dropping this question on this non-investment based board, I was unable to find any Follett board that was focusing on the investment aspects. Thanks!

http://bluesky.chicagotribune.com/originals/chi-mary-lee-schneider-follett-bsi-20140414,0,0.story

So I heard they laid off some people today in the home office. Anyone know who?

I heard recently that the nicest RM I ever knew in the company was termed back in August or Sept. before the November layoffs. Anyone know what happened?

Leadership quit blaming the previous employees, show some character. They are all gone and for the past 1.5 years the results are all yours. The only thing that matters is your results for the past 1.5 years are the worst, way worse than any year in... — read more 

A. One is Faculty Discover (which just launched). Think of it as a TripAdvisor for professors and instructors to discover other sources of crowd-sourced content from textbooks, supplemental materials, Ted talks, and trade show presentations that they... — read more 

A. We hadn’t done a lot of communicating before, quite honestly. So, we spent a lot of time in the first six to eight months talking to our associates about where we are, where we need to go and what they need to do. We also put more rigor around... — read more 

We invested a record amount of capital in our strategic plan this year and over the next three years, which will be more than we’ve invested in the previous five years combined. We took three of our seven locations and consolidated them here in... — read more 

http://bluesky.chicagotribune.com/originals/chi-mary-lee-schneider-follett-bsi-20140414,0,0.story?track=bluesky-ct-head

It's not a coincidence most of the recent hires and those promoted are white women.

A fellow ops employee mentioned that FHEG was opening off campus stores. I was an employee at the old FTX (Follett Textbook Exchange SDSU) and none of the 30 off campus FTX stores made money and they were all closed within a couple of years. This is... — read more 

Aren't we supposed to be following Amazon? I'll take 5k to leave.

I hate these biased assholes, I really do. I need to leave.

I've seen numerous postings for follett jobs across the country and they are titled " Temporary Evergreen". Can anyone tell me what that means?

Town hall meeting today not single mention of internal IT successes, but kudos to Infosys and TCS who have over 100 consultants working on POS and websphere. Actually felt bad for IT. Internal IT is done! Impressive moving from 9 ecommerce platforms... — read more 

Hey, does anyone know where the newly hired attorney in legal came from?

Mar 12, 2014 http://www.pearsoned.com/pearson-announces-publishing-distribution-agreement-with-microsoft-press/#.U0KxjI1OWpp http://blog.ck12.org/blog/bid/378529/Microsoft-Teams-Up-with-CK-12 CK-12 announced a global collaboration with Microsoft to... — read more 

Court case in process in Florida Northern District Court Fair Labor Standards Act Case RFC Case Number: 3:2014cv00079 Filed Feb, 18, 2014

The new office with all the glass offices and meeting rooms is like one huge hamster habitrail. Maybe they should put some running wheels in them and hang water bottles from the walls. It's just a little strange to me.

The OWBPA mandates that an employer provide a list of job titles with corresponding ages to all laid off employees. On November 8 this list was provided to over 40 laid off employees. On November 14 a revised list was sent out to over 40 employees... — read more 

How does it feel to be universally hated?

F= FAILURE H= HATRED E= EGO G= GREED